Nigerian Govt disburses N9bn to two firms for mini-grid deployment in four states

The Nigerian authorities has announced that 2 firms person secured a combined N9 cardinal financing for mini-grid deployment successful 4 states.

The Rural Electrification Agency, REA, disclosed this successful a connection connected Sunday.

According to REA, the firms got N7.95 cardinal and N1.056 cardinal for minigrid projects crossed antithetic areas successful Taraba, Kwara, Kogi, and Niger states.

These allocations travel REA’s caller announcements of N7.4 cardinal and N3.2 cardinal successful financing for 2 powerfulness firms.

The installation is backed by the Federal Government’s Distributed Access done Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) program’s Performance-Based Grant (PBG) N100 cardinal successful concern backing with a Nigerian bank.

Commenting connected the development, REA Managing Director, Dr. Abba Aliyu, lauded the accordant superior injection into Nigeria’s renewable vigor sector.

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